Hi William,
Thanks for your information.
> There is no additional security to be gained by doing that.
> Ties do not
> matter in this case.
It might not matter for security, but for my application it does. The
information from the master data set (that will be anonymised) will have to
be merged into a new dataset (to be anonymised with the mapping). If the
mapping contains ties, -merge- wouldn't know which of the tied records to
insert in the new dataset.
But thanks, best,
-Hendri.
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